I'm not sure I'm really following what you or the article is trying to say, but I sense that it is important haha

Probably related, I think it would be awesome if we had tools to automatically find primary source material from secondary references. I was recently reading a history book and it would say stuff like "Contemporary sources indicate that..." with a footnote to the primary source, but it didn't provide the direct quote of the primary source. Trying to find the primary source to get the direct quote was an extremely difficult task... which I did pull off... but it would've been great if all that was automated somehow.